THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

MODERNIST RELIGION IS DEAD | 2004-12-12

The main line churches are all rotting away and waiting to be buried.

They get a little kick from the backlash of evangelical success from time to time, but the only thing that really keeps the United Methodist Church and the like from disappearing tomorrow is the tradition, reputation and the cold cash it inherited.

Modernist churches had a huge crash in membership since the 1960s, but it never bothered them at all. They don't need ANY members. They have plenty of cash reserves to feed their preachers while they preach to empty seats about Social Progress and Integration and how Marx was actually just like Christ.

If you want to see the future of America's mainline churches, go to England. There you can sit in a giant cathedral on Sunday with maybe a dozen other people and the preacher, who draws a governmet salary and money from centuries of gifts. He'll be there next Sunday, and most of them don't give a rip whether anybody else is there or not.